Louisville’s First Official Improv Festival To Showcase Local and National Acts With Award Winning Performances, Improv Workshops, And More At The Bard’s Town.

LOUISVILLE, KY, September 29 & 30, 2017 – Local improv troupe, Damaged Goods, to host Louisville’s first ever Improv Comedy Festival at The Bard’s Town at 1801 Bardstown Rd. Metro Louisville will welcome some of the nation’s best improv comedy acts. 5 improv troupes from Louisville as well as 7 troupes from places including Chicago, St. Louis, Nashville, Detroit, and Cincinnati. This year’s Festival theme is, “If you’re alive…then you’re livin’.”

Festival performances will take place in Louisville’s best improv comedy venue, The Bard’s Town. The theater upstairs will play host to 5 shows and 2 improv workshops over 2 days.

Tickets for all 4 main shows will be $15 per show and $50 for a full weekend pass to all shows. Tickets are available at www.damgoodfestival.com/shows. There will be a 5th show after the 10pm set on Saturday Sept. 30th around Midnight. This show will be FREE to any and all and will consist of an improv jam open to the public and sponsored by Gonzo Improv. No experience needed for the jam. Just come up and have fun! Also you can come just to watch and not have to participate.

Sponsors of this year’s Dam Good Improv Festival include, The Hogue Group: Keller Williams Realty, Crescent Hill Radio, The Great Escape Comics, The Destination Nation Network, Thornsberry Solutions, Momma’s Pizza And More and others.

The Saturday 10pm Show Line Up at 2017 Dam Good Improv Festival Includes:

Saturday September 30th at 10pm

HEADLINERS - Laugh Out Loud Theater (Chicago & Schaumburg, IL)

After nearly a decade in Schaumburg, IL. Laugh Out Loud Theater expanded their hilarious improv theater into Chicago, IL with a second theater. Their shows are guaranteed to be laugh inducing and new every time you see one. Done in the same fully improvised style as hit shows like Whose Line Is it Anyway?, LOL combines live action improv comedy and audience participation into a truly unique, laugh-filled evening. From scenes and songs to crazy games -- it's all made up on the spot and based on audience suggestions. You never know what might happen next, but it's sure to leave you in stitches. LOL has won numerous awards making them one of the best places for improv comedy in the Chicago area.

Kentucky Bill (Louisville, KY)

“Kentucky Bill” is a long-form improv duo based out of Louisville, Kentucky. Each performance, Bill and Bill respectively, present a legend from their travels across the country and retell the tale to the best of their memory. It’s our goal to enrich and embellish the story telling experience. It’s your goal to inspire us to make a unique story, but good luck to you sir or madam, for we know every legend ever told. Having been featured at festivals in Kansas City, North Carolina, and the Del Close Marathon in NY, the Bills are ecstatic to bring their special brand of storytelling to the festival audience in their hometown.

Damaged Goods Improv (Louisville, KY)

Damaged Goods Improv, Louisville’s most energetic and successful improv troupe in the city for 7+ years, is not only hosting the festival but also performing in it! Since their inception, they have taken their special and unique brand of high energy short form improv games and managed to become a recognizable name in Louisville’s soaring and vibrant arts scene. Voted by LEO Readers as one of the "Best Comedians" and "Best Performing Arts Groups" in Louisville in 2011, Damaged Goods has spent the last few years thrilling audiences from Nashville, to Chicago and right here in Louisville! Often called "The Best Improv South of Chicago," Damaged Goods' unique style of high energy improv games continues to leave audiences begging for more in Louisville and many other places in North America. They've performed for 5 years in a row at the Chicago Improv Festival in Chicago, IL and the Detroit Improv Festival in Detroit, MI. They've performed as headliners at the Compass Improv Festival in St. Louis, MO, and have also been seen at the Big Little Comedy Festival in Cleveland, OH, The San Francisco Improv Festival in San Francisco, CA, The Big City Improv Festival in Toronto, ON Canada, the IFCincy Festival in Cincinnati, OH, The Pittsburgh Comedy Festival in Pittsburgh, PA, The Bongo Java Comedy Theater in Nashville, TN, and The Laugh Out Loud Theater in Chicago to high praise!

Tickets can be bought at the door or online at www.damgoodfestival.com/shows